Biography

I study the multiple interactions of work, technology, organization, and policy to solve societal challenges, mostly in health contexts.

Current position and affiliations. I am a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Organization Studies. I joined the University of Sussex in May 2003 and now based in the School of Business Management and Economics (BMEc) where I have joint affiliation to the department of Business and Management (B&M) and the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU). I am also a member of the Centre for Global Health Policy.

Background and previous academic positions. My initial training was in engineering science. I hold Bachelor and Master degrees from Politecnico di Milano in Management and Industrial Engineering, with a specialization in complex systems modelling and artificial intelligence (dissertation title "Design of neural networks for modelling and managing of production systems").

After working as a research assistant during my master studies at graduation I was hired at the same institution as a research fellow and lecturer, with a joint affiliation to the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DIG) and the School of Management (MIP), where I stayed for three years.

In 1998 I moved to the UK to do my PhD in the School of Management at the University of Bath (UK), completing a thesis in 2003 on innovation in the medical device field (title "How new technologies become legitimated: the co-evolution of technologies and networks in the cardiac implantable device field") and working as a research fellow on a number of projects.

Other visiting positions. In addition to my full time positions now at Sussex and before in Milano and Bath, I have held a number of fellowships and visiting professorships at other institutions in Europe and in the US:

-2007-2008: Senior Research Fellow, International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (InCHOIR) and Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, USA.